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Lang, William Cosmo Gordon, (1864-1945), Baron Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury

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Surname: Lang
Forenames: William Cosmo Gordon
Gender: Male
Date: 1864-1945
Title: Baron Lang
Biography: ODNB link for Lang, William Cosmo Gordon (1864-1945) Baron Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P162311 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P16722 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for William Cosmo Gordon Lang
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
corresp and papers
Lambeth Palace Library
Lang MSS
NRA 10652 Lang

See HMC Papers of British churchmen 1780-1940, 1987
2
1909-28: official letters and papers
Borthwick Institute for Archives: University of York
Bp. C&P.XII
NRA 7540 York
3
1890-99: letters (21) to Sir William Anson
Oxford University: All Souls College
Anson
NRA 30791 WR Anson
4
1908-25: letters to Herbert Asquith
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Asquith
NRA 12685
5
1909-16: corresp with Samuel Bickersteth
Lambeth Palace Library
MS 2948
6
1910-42: corresp with the Bickersteth family
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Eng b 2093, c 6417, c6438, c 6445, d 3057, d 3060, d 3063 passim
NRA 42109
7
1917-35: letters to 1st Viscount Bridgeman
Shropshire Archives
S.R.O. 4629
NRA 34743
8
1909-44: corresp with Lord Cecil
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 51154
9
1943-45: corresp with Sir Sydney Cockerell
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 52729
10
1896-1945: letters (123) to Canon AS Crawley, his wife and daughter
Lambeth Palace Library
MS 3207
NRA 39729 Lang
11
1933-43: corresp with LG Curtis
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Curtis; Eng hist b 224, c 776-877
NRA 21614
12
1901-15: letters to Sir Charles Dalrymple
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
Acc 7228 8987
NRA 17690 Dalrymple

See NRA(S)0909
13
1892-1928: corresp with Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury
Lambeth Palace Library
NRA 37975 Davidson
14
1915-42: corresp with Geoffrey Dawson
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Dawson
NRA 25619
15
letters to Lord and Lady Desborough
Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies
D/ERV
NRA 26768
16
1927-49: corresp with John Douglas
Lambeth Palace Library
Douglas MSS/21 ff. 226-391
NRA 36481 Douglas
17
1914-21: letters to TH Floyd
Lancashire Archives
DDFl
NRA 18108
18
1933-42: letters to Sir Edward Ford
Lambeth Palace Library
See Annual Report 1991
19
1927-36: corresp with Lord Gladstone
Lambeth Palace Library
MSS 2773-74 passim
20
1936-42: letters to Seton Gordon
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
Acc.7451
21
1907-36: corresp with Lord Haldane
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
MSS 5908-6083
22
1901-18: corresp with Lord Halifax (35 items)
Borthwick Institute for Archives: University of York
Halifax papers A4/229 269
NRA 8128 Wood
23
1918-41: corresp with Arthur Headlam
Lambeth Palace Library
MSS 2615, 2785
24
corresp with Sir Samuel Hoare
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
Templewood Papers
NRA 42205 Hoare
25
1917-42: letters to Claude Jenkins
Lambeth Palace Library
MSS 1633-34
26
1932-41: letters to Lady Londonderry
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)
D3099/3/29
NRA 19803 Stewart
27
corresp with Lord Lugard
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Lugard
NRA 8555 Lugard
28
1933-45: letters (14) to HP Macmillan
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
MS.25260-25273
NRA 29056
29
1921-41: corresp with Albert Mansbridge
British Library, Manuscript Collections
65254-5B
30
1929-45: letters to Sir James Marchant
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Eng lett c 229-300
31
1909-11: corresp with ED Morel
London University: London School of Economics Library, Archives and Special Collections
MOREL
NRA 7532 Morel
32
1929-30: corresp with JH Oldham
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Afr s 1829
NRA 26598 Oldham
33
1920-42: corresp with Edwin Palmer
Lambeth Palace Library
MSS 2962-3010 passim
34
1908-45: letters to Wilfred Parker
Lambeth Palace Library
MSS 2881-84
35
1915-47: letters to Richard Rawstorne
Lambeth Palace Library
MS 1803
36
1906-38: corresp with Athelstan Riley
Lambeth Palace Library
MS 2349
37
1925-41: corresp with Lord Sankey
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Eng hist a 19, c 502-56, 588, d 313-40, e 242-303, f 21-25
NRA 17016
38
1913-42: corresp with 3rd Earl of Selborne
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
Selborne papers
NRA 22802
39
20th cent: misc corresp
Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections
Coll/401
40
1902-1937: letters to the Deans of Westminster
Westminster Abbey Library and Muniment Room
WAM series
41
c 1890: letters of T.H. Bowlby rel to
Lambeth Palace Library
MS 5058
42
early 20th cent: letters and ephemera of Hilda Neal, secretary to Archbishop Lang, rel to work for Lang and other bishops
Lambeth Palace Library
L-2014-7
43
1928: scrapbook of items (created by Mrs Rachel Nichols) rel to Lan's enthronement as Archbishop of Canterbury
Canterbury Cathedral Archives
Acc. no. 2015/39